SHAKEN AND STIRRED VIN DIESEL STARS AS A NEW KIND OF SPY IN 'XXX'.Byline: - Glenn Whipp Vin Diesel's spy in ``XXX'' does share a few qualities with filmdom's most famous secret agent man, James Bond. Both attract women, both are men who get things done and neither has much time for introspection. But whereas 007's feats of daring are always carried off with a certain Savile Row panache, Diesel's doppelganger doppelgänger Psychiatry A delusion that a double of a person or place exists elsewhere; it is related to other defects in recognition and suggests organic disease in the nondominant parietal lobe. See Depersonalization disorder, Schizophrenia. has all the subtlety of Limp Bizkit frontman front·man n. 1. also front man A man who serves as a nominal leader but who lacks real authority. 2. Music A leading singer with a group. Fred Durst. And that's precisely the point. ``Bond has been around for 40 years; it's probably time for a new breed of spy,'' Diesel says. ``My character is the voice of the younger generation in many ways. He doesn't have time for excuses or reflection and he makes no excuses about being the new breed. He lives for the thrills.'' Probably while guzzling Mountain Dew. ``XXX'' reteams Diesel and his ``Fast and the Furious'' director Rob Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. in an action movie that Sony and Revolution executives hope will become a spy franchise. Their faith can be seen in the money handed to Cohen (the movie has a $75-million-plus budget) and Diesel, who took home $10 million for his work. It's a huge leap for the likable 34-year-old actor who burst on the scene last year with ``Fast'' after first attracting attention in 1998 with his supporting role in ``Saving Private Ryan.'' ``It's bizarre,'' Diesel says of his success. ``I'm a kid from New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of who was fearlessly extroverted ex·tro·vert·ed also ex·tra·vert·ed adj. Marked by interest in and behavior directed toward others or the environment as opposed to or to the exclusion of self; gregarious or outgoing: . And that changes now. I don't think you can be as extroverted or crazy and silly and free as a kid from New York would be.'' So Diesel channels all that pent-up extroversion extroversion /ex·tro·ver·sion/ (eks?tro-ver´zhun) 1. a turning inside out. 2. direction of one's energies and attention outward from the self. into his ``XXX'' character, a man who steals cars and drives them off bridges, snowboards down the Austrian Alps and performs freestyle motocross stunts while trying to evade bad guys. ``He's very much the libertine lib·er·tine n. 1. One who acts without moral restraint; a dissolute person. 2. One who defies established religious precepts; a freethinker. adj. Morally unrestrained; dissolute. ,'' Diesel says. ``And loving it.'' Hey, didn't another spy, Maxwell Smart, used to say that? CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Vin Diesel, right, embraces espionage and Asia Argento in ``XXX,'' Aug. 2. |
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